This project puts the artistic capabilities of Ayola to the test. The poetry of the Modernist period, during which T.S. Eliot penned “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” used language in such a way that allowed for a multiplicity of interpretations. As ambiguity is something we in the ARG have striven to avoid, interpretations of Modernist poetry can lead to a number of different translations into Ayola. Below is my own interpretation and translation of T.S. Eliot’s famous poem, but I am interested in reading others. Please enjoy my version of the poem and feel free to comment with questions or translations of your own!

[1]zagepolvway restorantoy (sawdust restaurants) is a noun phrase using the complex relational adjective zagepolvway (sawdust = dust of a saw) which modifies restorantoy (restaurants) so that the entire phrase means ‘restaurants of (containing) sawdust.’

[2]argumajo…intendajo (argument…intent)rhymes in Ayola because all event abstraction nouns use the –aj- suffix. The fact that the equivalent words in English also rhyme is unusual.

[3]jwi (of (as object)) links intendajo (intent) with its object dutcare (to lead). The link jwi is obligatory in Ayola but has no English equivalent in this context.

[4]Enu…naparlats. (In…are talking) In this stanza, the translator has chosen to alter the syntax of the sentence in order to achieve a rhyme that was present in this position in the original English text and maintain the intended meaning.

[5]la pracuroy…handoy (the works…hands) is a noun phrase which uses two different links ji (of (as agent)) and jwe (of (as contents)) to link the two nouns pracuroy and djurnoy to the noun handoy. An exact English translation of the full Ayola phrase would be ‘the works of and days of hands’ in which the two ‘of’s have the two different meanings specified above.

[6]nikendats (have known) is repeated twice with an implied subject. Implied subjects are allowed in Ayola just as it is in English in order to achieve brevity.

[7]kafway spunoy (coffee spoons) is a noun phrase using the relational adjective kafway which modifies the noun spunoy (spoons) so that the entire phrase means ‘spoons of (containing) coffee.’

[8]sprawlya jonu cpilko (sprawling on a pin) is an adjective phrase using the link jonu derived from the preposition onu (on). Adjective phrases must use links instead of prepositions. Unlike prepositions, links have a fixed position after the adjective and are not free to move in the sentence.

[9]Ja akela avkamiza viroy (Of lonely shirted men) is a link phrase which translates the English prepositional phrase ‘Of lonely men in shirtsleeves.’

[10]inklina jayfu fenestroy (leaning out of windows) is an adjective phrase using the link jayfu derived from the preposition ayfu (out of).

[11]poke nikalvya (having become a bit bald) is an adjective phrase which translates the English adjective phrase ‘grown slightly bald.’ The adjective nikalvya is the perfective participle of the verb kalvyare (to become bald) derived from the adjective kalva (bald).

[12]Anke…vodo. (When the wind blows, whitens and blackens the water.) is the Ayola translation of the English clause ‘When the wind blows the water white and black.’ It makes use of three causative verbs: blovware (to blow (vt)), albware (to whiten), and nigruware (to blacken).